Oolite Bulletins

I have a MS sidewinder JS (why is it MS peripherals are great, yet their software is pants??) and always had an issue with the crosshair being off-centre. I used to fix this up using jscal, but the original doesn't build on 2.6.x kernels. But the Ubuntu version does. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/edg...

I have found that during the game, if you hit [P]ause and then F2->Joystick set-up, it actually sets/unsets restricted play, and sets you back to the start of the game. Do NOT hit save here, as you will lose everything. I am running the GNU/Linux version on Slackware 64 bit (Slamd64 32 bit emulation...

Hi Lethe, and first of all welcome to the boards, and of course to this great game! :D As to your error reports: Both sound strange, and it is definitely not what I am seeing in my game. For the second one (cargo) please note that you are losing cargo only one by one. Every hit on your ship destroy...

Gimi wrote:

Doubt it....

I expect the majority of the people on this bb were around at that time.

Gimi

Thinking, yea - dead right. I guess us old timers will be the only people now-a-days to appreciate this game (i.e. too slow and ponderous for modern gamers).

Nick

Hi all, I expect I am one of the few who was around to play the original wire-framed Elite on the BBC micro - during Xmas 1984 it was the first computer game that got me hooked, and subsequently the first game I played continuously for 36 hours non-stop over the holidays :D Anyway, I stumbled on Ool...